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Episode: Professor Danielle George
Description: The government is being urged to support a campaign that hopes to tackle the £1.5bn engineering skills shortage by placing greater emphasis on how engineering can be taught in primary and secondary schools.Tonight, Kevin Burke education consultant, ex-Department of Education and author of the IET’s new report Engineering Kids’ Futures will head to a Parliamentary event at Westminster to remind MPs of the vital importance Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects play in supporting the UK economy.It follows an open letter to the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson from Profe...